Method of attaching buttons



(No Model.)

J. MATHISON.

METHOD OF ATTAOHING BUTTONS. No. 327,291. Patented Sept. 29, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH MATHISON, OF LYNN, ASSIGNOR TO THE STANDARD BUTTON FASTENING COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

METHOD OF ATTACHING BUTTONS.

SFEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 327,291, dated September 29, 1885.

Application filed October 21, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it-may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH MATHISON, of Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain Improved Method of Attaching Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide an improved method of securing buttons having eyes projecting from the under side of the button to the material on which they are to be used, the invention being chiefly applicable to buttons for boots and shoes.

The invention consists in the improved method which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 represent the different steps of the operation. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 represent aslight modification.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In carrying out my invention I hold the button b over the material a, to which it is to be attached, and draw upwardly through the material and outside of the eye of the button a loop, 2, as shown in Fig. 1. Then I bend the loop 2 over the eye of the button, as shown in Fig. 2, and draw up from the same thread a second loop, 3, which passes through the eye of the button and through the loop 2, as

shown in Fig. 3. I next pass the loop 3 over the head of the button, and finally tighten the loop, the loop 3 being thus caused to pass around the outside of the eye of the button above the point where it passes through said eye, as shown in Fig. 4. The loop 2, remain: ing outside the eye of the button, surrounds the loop 3, and thus assists in holding the button.

In Figs. 5, 6, and 7 the loop 2 is shown as drawn up at the left-hand side of the eye of the button, Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4 showing it drawn up at the right-hand side.

The operations above described may be performed by hand or by a suitable machine.

I claim- The improved method of securing buttons, the same consisting in drawing a loop of thread through the material and outside of the eye of the button to be attached, then drawing a second loop through the eye of the button and through the first loop, and, finally, passing the second loop over the head of the button and tightening both loops, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 10th day of October, 1884.

1 JOSEPH MATHISON. Witnesses:

C. F. BROWN, H. BROWN. 

